Tag: Hospitality Manpower
The talent challenge: It is time for the industry to emphasise...
The latest UNWTO World Tourism Barometer recorded a 182 per cent year-on-year increase in international tourism for the January-March 2022 period, with destinations everywhere...
Malaysia Tourism Council tackles labour crunch
To minimise the acute manpower shortage in the travel and hospitality industry, Malaysia Tourism Council (MTC) has devised a plan to share with the...
Human touch still crucial despite advances in travel technology
As the hospitality industry embraces the digital age, industry experts claim it is essential to retain the human element.
According to a recent Oracle Hospitality...
STB ramps up focus on manpower skills, sustainability and wellness
To facilitate the path to recovery by capturing pent-up travel demand, the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) will ramp up its focus on sustainability, urban...
MITA labours to plug Perak’s tourism talent shortage
As tourism and hospitality companies scramble to fill job openings vacated during the pandemic, the state government of Perak has collaborated with Malaysian Inbound...
Maldives’ minimum wage move brings joy to tourism industry
Tourism operators in the Maldives have hailed the government's enforcement of a minimum wage for local workers across all industries and sectors, a move...
IHG embraces flexible working to tackle hospitality labour shortage
IHG Hotels & Resorts has introduced a suite of new benefits including flexible work arrangements to its employees in Australia, as it looks to...
UNWTO launches hospitality recruitment platform
As part of efforts to kickstart tourism jobs recovery, the UNWTO has launched the Jobs Factory, an innovative platform designed to connect hospitality talent...
Building a future-ready hospitality workforce through upskilling
Singapore Institute of Technology's associate professor of hospitality business, Detlev Remy, discusses the importance of upskilling today's hospitality workforce and how that can benefit them and the hospitality industry of the future.
The people predicament: How will we retain talents whose faith is...
For an industry that often says its success depends on its people, losing good people to despair and other industries is worrying. On the bright side, this crisis could be a turning point for the travel, tourism and business events profession.
